Team USA Roster Boasts Top NBA Players,
College Standout
for 2001 Goodwill Games

With 100 days to go before
the start of the 2001 Goodwill Games, eleven top young NBA
players including, 2001 NBA Rookie of the Year Mike Miller
(Orlando Magic), 2001 All-NBA Rookie first team selections
Marc Jackson (Golden State Warriors) and Kenyon Martin (New
Jersey Nets), and this season's college Player of the Year
Shane Battier (Duke '01) were named to basketball's Team USA,
Goodwill Games officials announced today. The 12-member team
will consist of NBA players who were drafted in either 1999
or 2000, or who were 22 years old or younger at the time of
the selection process. Player selections were made by the
USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team Committee. The Brisbane
Convention and Exhibition Center will play host to basketball
competition from Sept. 3 -9.
Members of the 2001 USA Basketball Men's Goodwill Games Team
are: Battier; Baron Davis (Charlotte Hornets); Jackson; Rashard
Lewis (Seattle SuperSonics); Mark Madsen (Los Angeles Lakers);
Shawn Marion (Phoenix Suns); Martin; Andre Miller (Cleveland
Cavaliers); Mike Miller; Jermaine O'Neal (Indiana Pacers);
Wally Szczerbiak (Minnesota Timberwolves); and Jason Terry
(Atlanta Hawks).

Minnesota Timberwolves
head coach Flip Saunders was named as head coach of the 12-member
USA team on March 21, and Orlando Magic head coach Glenn Rivers,
Michigan State University head coach Tom Izzo and University
of Dayton (Ohio) mentor Oliver Purnell were named as assistant
coaches on May 16.

"USA Basketball will
be very well represented at the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane,"
said Stu Jackson, chair of USA Basketball's Senior Men's National
Team Committee and the NBA's senior vice president of Basketball
Operations. "With the 12 young players named, we have
assembled a team with great athletic ability as well as depth
and versatility at every position. All of the players have
a very bright NBA future, and they will benefit from the international
basketball experience gained at the Goodwill Games. We are
proud to have them represent the NBA and USA Basketball."

While Mike Miller earned
Rookie of the Year honors, he was also selected to the 2001
NBA All-Rookie first team. He was joined on the first team
by Golden State's Jackson and the Nets Martin. Eight of the
chosen players - Davis, Jackson, Marion, Martin, Andre Miller,
Mike Miller, Szczerbiak and Terry - participated in the 2001
Schick Rookie Challenge that was held during the annual NBA
All-Star Weekend. Szczerbiak was selected the MVP of the game.
The USA Goodwill Games Team also includes four members of
the 2000 NBA All-Rookie teams - Szczerbiak (first team); Andre
Miller (first team); Marion (second team) and Terry (second
team). Both Szczerbiak and Andre Miller were part of the 1998
Goodwill Games Team USA that defeated Team Australia for gold.

Also selected to the squad
was Battier, who completed his four-year career at Duke with
the 2001 NCAA championship and was honored as the consensus
2001 College Player of the Year.

"This will be the
first time that NBA players will be competing at the Goodwill
Games which will be thrilling for the young players, who will
be able to showcase their talents on an international level,
as well as for the fans watching the Games in person or through
our live television coverage on TNT," said Mike Plant,
president of Goodwill Games, Inc

The Goodwill Games Basketball
competition will be Sept. 3-9, and will be televised in the
United States on Turner Network Television (TNT). The eight-team
Goodwill Games basketball field also includes Argentina, host-country
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.

Team USA is the defending
Goodwill Games champions having won the gold in New York at
the 1998 Games with a thrilling 93-85 overtime win vs. Australia.
The USA men have medaled in all four Goodwill Games competitions
and in the process compiled an overall win-loss record of
19-6 (.760 winning percentage). The USA captured gold in 1998
and 1986, silver in 1990 and bronze in 1994. All four of those
USA Goodwill Games Teams were comprised of college players.